"In Paul Graham's series The Great North Road, colour often contradicts the mundane reality of the road. The landscapes, few and far between, are flat and unromantic and the road is primarily depicted through the interiors of the wayside stopping places and service stations." The Photographers Gallery
Mona Hatoum’s Routes II is comprised of five colour photocopies of maps taken from airline brochures depicting flight routes. The maps detail networks created by travel, charting the globe primarily according to movement rather than geographic, national, or political boundaries. Using ink and gouache, Hatoum drew coloured lines onto the maps, adding her own hand-drawn abstract designs to the existing webs of the airlines’ routes. Hatoum was born in Lebanon to Palestinian parents [...] She has said that she considers the paths she drew in Routes II to be “routes for the rootless.” |
Photographs warp our sense of time. All photographs present us with the past and present at the same time. Photographs remind us of people and things that have gone. Photographs record what has been lost, what no longer exists, or what still exists but will be lost at some point in the future.